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1	Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics more books like this by Michael P Rabiger add to wishlist "Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics" is a comprehensive manual that has inspired tens of thousands of readers worldwide to realize their artistic vision and produce well-constructed films. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout your career. "Directing" covers the methods, ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $11.70! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Audio-Vision more books like this by Professor Michel Chion add to wishlist In Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, French critic and composer Michel Chion reassesses audiovisual media since the revolutionary 1927 debut of recorded sound in cinema, shedding crucial light on the mutual relationship between sound and image in audiovisual perception. Chion argues that sound film qualitatively produces a new form of perception: we ... see all copies from $23.32! new only from $30.47! \| first editions
3	Film Form: Essays in Film Theory more books like this by Sergei Eisenstein add to wishlist Twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Jay Leyda; Index; photographs and diagrams. see all copies from $2.80! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Major Film Theories: An Introduction more books like this by James Dudley Andrew, Dudley Andrew add to wishlist Dudley Andrew is a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified public. Since the publication of his Major Film Theories, a classic in the field, the sophistication of the debate concerning the proper approach to film has grown. It is now the province of critics and universities instead of directors and artists, and ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $13.61! \| first editions
5	Film Art more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell's and Kristin Thompson's "Film Art" has been the best-selling and widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. While it continues to provide the best introduction to the fundamentals of serious film study, the eighth edition has been revised be ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $97.94!
6	Filmosophy more books like this by Professor Daniel Frampton add to wishlist Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo M& uuml;nsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of "film-thinking," arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic "intent" about the ... see all copies from $16.98! new only from $25.95! \| SVS
7	On the History of Film Style more books like this by David Bordwell add to wishlist The study of cinematic style has in many ways shaped attitudes towards films. Style assigns films to a tradition, distinguishes a classic and signals the arrival of an innovation. This book aims to show how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change across the history of cinema. The author explores the theories of ... see all copies from $38.00! new only from $38.00! \| SVS
8	Critical Eye: An Introduction to Looking at Movies more books like this by Margo A Kasdan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $82.57!
9	Film in the Aura of Art more books like this by Dudley Andrew, James Dudley Andrew add to wishlist see all copies from $6.61!
10	The Voice in Cinema more books like this by Professor Michel Chion, Professor Claudia Gorbman (Editor) add to wishlist How can a voice whose source is never seen& mdash;such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho& mdash;have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $22.87! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Aesthetics and Film more books like this by Katherine Thomson-Jones add to wishlist "Aesthetics and film" is a philosophical study of the art of film. Its motivation is the recent surge of interest among analytic philosophers in the philosophical implications of central issues in film theory and the application of general issues in aesthetics to the specific case of film. Of particular interest are questions concerning the ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $16.72! \| SVS
12	Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema more books like this by Janet Staiger add to wishlist Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain ... see all copies from $14.98! new only from $40.35! \| SVS
13	World in a Frame: What We See in Films more books like this by Leo Braudy add to wishlist "An exciting, entertaining exploration of films. . . . [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment."--Robert Kirsch, "Los Angeles Times" see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema more books like this by Jean Mitry add to wishlist Mitry attempts to supply the missing link between the classical film theorists and the film semioticians, providing a statement of the psychological and formalist views of film. This one-volume condensation of "Esthetique et Psychologie du Cinema" discusses such topics as the film image, rhythm and montage, rhythm and moving shots, and time and ... see all copies from $13.48! new only from $27.59! \| first editions
15	Cinema as a Graphic Art more books like this by Nilsen add to wishlist see all copies from $3.47! first editions
16 view cover	Turbulence and Flow in Film: The Rhythmic Design more books like this by Yvette Biro, Paul Salamon (Translator) add to wishlist Little attention has been paid to the temporal aspect of filmmaking. "Turbulence and Flow in Film" describes how pace and rhythm create meaning and how film gains its fullness through the flow of images and the speed or slowness of the dramatic action. It demonstrates that the quick or restrained breathing of the sequences is not a secondary ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Moving Pictures more books like this by Anne Hollander add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18	Moving Pictures more books like this by Ann L Hollander, Elisabeth Sifton (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film more books like this by Angela Dalle Vacche, Angela Dalle Vacche add to wishlist The visual image is the common denominator of cinema and painting, and indeed many filmmakers have used the imagery of paintings to shape or enrich the meaning of their films. In this discerning new approach to cinema studies, Angela Dalle Vacche discusses how the use of pictorial sources in film enables eight filmmakers to comment on the ... see all copies from $11.23! new only from $32.17! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Moving Pictures more books like this by Torben Grodal add to wishlist Moving Pictures is a bold new theoretical account of the role of emotions and cognition in producing the aesthetic effects of film and television genres. It argues that film genres are mental structures which integrate sensations, emotions, and actions, activating the viewer's body and mind. Using recent developments in neuroscience and cognitive ... see all copies from $38.27! new only from $44.53! \| SVS
21	Cocteau on the film more books like this by Cocteau add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	The Film: A Psychological Study: The Silent Photoplay in 1916 more books like this by Hugo Munsterberg add to wishlist see all copies from $3.23!
23 view cover	The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature more books like this by Nina Cornyetz add to wishlist This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese canon, for instance works by Kawabata Yasunari, ... see all copies from $149.50! new only from $149.50! \| SVS
24	The three faces of the film; the art, the dream, the cult. more books like this by Parker Tyler add to wishlist see all copies from $11.50! first editions
25	Film Criticism: A Counter Theory more books like this by William Cadbury, Leland Poague add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions

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